Chapters from the Physical History of the Earth: An Introduction to Geology and PalaeontologyC. K. Paul & Company, 1880 - Всего страниц: 281 |
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... appear certain that they turned their attention to any other branch of science . Even the Greeks , who had distanced all nations in metaphysics ( and are yet unapproached in some departments of culture ) , remained content with a ...
... appear certain that they turned their attention to any other branch of science . Even the Greeks , who had distanced all nations in metaphysics ( and are yet unapproached in some departments of culture ) , remained content with a ...
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... appear to have for ever remained within the same boundaries . But is this so ? We feel no motion of the earth , but we know from astronomy that it is spinning round on its axis at the rate of more than a thousand miles an hour , and ...
... appear to have for ever remained within the same boundaries . But is this so ? We feel no motion of the earth , but we know from astronomy that it is spinning round on its axis at the rate of more than a thousand miles an hour , and ...
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... appear that there is any great variety of rocks , because they are so frequently concealed by vegetation or overlie one another at any particular spot we may be examining . When , however , we take a wider area into consideration , the ...
... appear that there is any great variety of rocks , because they are so frequently concealed by vegetation or overlie one another at any particular spot we may be examining . When , however , we take a wider area into consideration , the ...
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... appear , then , on the face of it , that the formation of these latter rocks must have occupied an enormous time ? We are dealing with no hypothesis here we are on the ground of indisputable fact . These latter rocks have been measured ...
... appear , then , on the face of it , that the formation of these latter rocks must have occupied an enormous time ? We are dealing with no hypothesis here we are on the ground of indisputable fact . These latter rocks have been measured ...
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... appearing and disappearing through cycles of time whose vastness we cannot fully compre- hend . Thousands of years must be as seconds of time to him who would compute the earth's age , and whole species and genera of plants and animals ...
... appearing and disappearing through cycles of time whose vastness we cannot fully compre- hend . Thousands of years must be as seconds of time to him who would compute the earth's age , and whole species and genera of plants and animals ...
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